She has designed several novel rigs for production of ultrafine grained materials, including ECAP machine with back-pressure, High Pressure Tube Shearing, Hydro-ECAP, SPD processes with rotational shear plane and others. The novel approach in these processes is based on fundamentals of mechanics of materials. In the last seven years, Rimma Lapovok has made a considerable contribution to the area of Hybrid Materials by SPD processing. Development of methods to improve simultaneously strength and electrical conductivity are especially relevant to advanced energy materials. She has published about 201 papers on ultrafine grained materials and SPD processing and her H-factor is 36.